Charu’s first foray into Entrepreneurship was creating a lesson plan building platform for teachers that aligned the common core curriculum to current events. During her early tech career, Charu worked on projects for the State of Illinois and City of Chicago. She built Machine Learning to: track the spread of invasive algal blooms, help foster kids find late-night safe housing in an app, guide new English speakers in conversation with bots, track opioid usage across America, and worked on public data aggregation efforts to make innovation easier in non-academic settings. Post-grad, Charu worked in Private Equity.Charu conducts extensive market research and builds the AI engines behind Etta’s bladder, skin, and heart-disease diagnostic products; taking the products to testing, development, and market within clinical settings. When she’s not building neural networks or learning from patients and clinicians, Charu enjoys: composing music on eclectic instruments, dancing Ballet, surfing, hiking, and teaching English-as-a-Second-Language in refugee communities.